Atomic Theory

  • John Dalton was born

    John Dalton was born
  • John Dalton discovered

    John Dalton proposed that all matter is composed of very small things called atoms.
  • John Dalton died

    John Dalton died
  • JJ Thomson was born

    JJ  Thomson was born
  • Robert Millikan was born

    Robert Millikan was born
  • Ernest Rutherford born

    Ernest Rutherford born
  • Niels Bohr was born

    Niels Bohr was born
  • JJ Thomson

    discovered the electron by experimenting with a Crookes, or cathode ray, tube
  • Robert Millikan did the oil droplet experiment

    Determined the size of electrons.
  • Ernest Rutherford discovered alpha and beta rays

    the first to discover that atoms have a small charged nucleus surrounded by largely empty space, and are circled by tiny electrons
  • Neils Bohr he came up with the liquid droplet theory

    Discovered the nucleus and development an atomic model
  • JJ Thomson died

  • Robert Millikan died

  • Neils Bohr died

  • Ernest Rutherford died